Poll: Murray, Rossi tied

Dino Rossi, who this week announced his challenge to Sen. Patty Murray, is tied with the three-term Democrat in a new poll.

Murray garners 48 percent in a new Rasmussen Reports survey compared to Rossi’s 47 percent. That’s within the poll’s 4.5 percent margin of error. Rasmussen notes that the Murray-Rossi numbers are basically unchanged from earlier samples the company has taken.

“Murray carries both male and female voters in the state unless Rossi is the Republican in the race in which case both demographic groups break roughly even,” Rasmussen said in a news release.

The latest survey of 500 likely voters was taken May 26. It shows that Murray is well ahead of her other Republican challengers: